[rules-dev] tabs (\t) in pom.xml files

[Mark Proctor]

Geoffrey De Smet wrote:
> Some of Drools source code has a bunch of \t characters in it.
>
> Some might cause havoc some day, like this one in Scenario.java:
>   public int\t\tmaxRuleFirings = 100000;
>
> Others are pretty annoying, as they mess up the identitation of the 
> files on fisheye and make it hard to analyze diffs.
>
> Would you mind terrible if I (or anyone else) replace all \t chars in 
> the pom.xml files (I don't care about the other files) with 2 spaces 
> on trunk?
> There are not that many tabs in those though :)
>
> BTW:
> I've had an issue with a plugin upgrade of Eclipse at work, in which 
> it overwrote my old tab policy and enabled tabs instead of spaces 
> again. Maybe some of you have it too?
>
Go for it, the standard eclipse formatter uses spaces anyway.

Mark